Ooma Telo VoIP Home Phone System for $139.99 + $5.00 shipping
Hey, Paul. Fancy meeting you out here on this window ledge. And here I thought this’d be a private affair.
we love ours!!!
By far my best woot purchase. Love it so much I have bought it for my family members as well.
If you have an android device, there is a $5 app called GrooveIP that utilizes google voice's VOIP...free calls to US and Canada for 2012 at least, your own google number, or port your number for I think $10 or $20. If you take the google number you can forward it to multiple phones, and google voice has it's own voicemail service, with email/text alerts and transcription options, call screening, etc. Just a cool and much cheaper alternative if you want VOIP with an android device.
Its my best purchase. I have had mine for about a year now and it has never given me a single issue. I was paying around 40 a month from TWC and i had their internet. The ironic thing is i now use their internet to escape my phone bill from them. That said its the best investment anyone with a home phone can ever make. Call quality is amazing on reliable internet and its ran every day for a year with no issues at all. Please enjoy laughing at your old phone bills and the promo letters from other companies in the mail that say "home phone service as low as 19.95 per month" *for the first year. enjoy ooma and their service
I purchased this at Costco for $200 7 months ago to replace my Vonage service. I have Vonage for 7 years and had no complaints. Having now switched over to Ooma, my only complaint is that I was paying $25 per month to Vonage for too long. Check out their web site as the basic service is $3-5 per month for taxes and the premium service is an additional $10 per month. I don’t have a real need for the extra service, but it may be worth it to others as it does offer more options then Vonage did. Remember high speed internet is a must for good call quality with any VIOP (Vonage, Ooma).
I got one of these refurbs from Woot back in November and it has already paid for itself compared to what I was paying for my old landline.
check out OBi110 from OBihai. a little more work to configure than ooma but only costs $45 and no monthly fees/taxes like ooma. ooma couldn't port my number but i was able to with the obi and google voice.
@antiph3d: I've never had ooma but I have had the standard version of magic jack. MJ works great, sure some will complain that you have to leave your computer on 24x7, but I do that anyways. Also MJ came out with MJ Plus which plugs directly into a router for those who dont want any software on their computer and/or dont leave it on 24x7.
MJ was great. I had no major complaints. One thing MJ does that's annoying is, it'll cut you off if you're on a conversation for more than 1 hour exactly. I dont know why, but it does. You have to wait 2-3 mins before you can call them back. Also on incoming calls it shows no names, only phone numbers on caller ID.
I'm currently running an Obi Hai 110 with google voice. I bought it when my MJ service was still active to try them side by side. I stuck with my Obi with google voice. Google Voice is still free for domestic calls for 2012 but they may decide to charge for it next year. The Obi device is very versatile and reliable.
$197.86 + free shipping @ Amazon. Mostly positive reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/Ooma-Telo-Free-Phone-Service/dp/B002O3W4LE/
How does this compare to a MagickJack??
Bought an older model years ago and it works great. I don't have to pay anything, but at $3-5 a month it seems better than most anything else.
These work. I got one last time they had 'em. It was easy to set up, and I told CenturyLink buh-bye.
The dial tone sounds kind of strange, though.
Are they related to Tribbles? There always seem to be more of them - are they secretly breeding them? This has shown up on every Woot Off for quite a while now and has made appearances on Woot proper. Clearly Woot has a massive storage facility filled with these somewhere.

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